Summit of the Future: an Education Session for & by Religious NGOs at the United Nations
Join us for an education session on the upcoming Summit of the Future! Date & Time: Tuesday, 17 September, from 10am to 11:30am (New York City Time) Participate in person: Basement meeting room of the Salvation Army (221 E 52nd St, New York, NY 10022) Participate virtually: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUuf-6urTsvG9dMtXwVI20vXcLRg5jhiBuM Resource persons for this session will include: Sr. Beatriz Martinez Garcia, SSND (School Sisters of Notre Dame) Sr. Durstyne Farnan, OP (Dominican Leadership Conference) Sr. Jean Quinn, DW (UNANIMA International) Liana Almony (UNANIMA International) Fr. Rohan Dominic, CMF (Proclade Internazionale Onlus) Teresa Blumenstein (Justice Coalition of Religious)
JCoR Workshop on Migration Advocacy for Religious in Zambia (June 2024)
From 3 to 8 June 2024, the JCoR Network of Zambia offered a workshop on migration advocacy for Religious and their partners in Zambia. Many of the participants were already actively engaged in a ministry of visitation to migrants who were being detained in Zambian prisons. They sought capacity building on the issue of migration-related rights, polict frameworks, and procedures, which will enable them to collaborate in a more effective way in promoting the human rights of migrants in Zambia and Zambian migrants abroad. Objectives: To raise critical awareness and knowledge creation on Migration among participants To encourage welcoming attitudes towards Vulnerable migrants and refugees as demanded by the Church Social Teaching for every Catholic Christian . To encourage collaboration among participants in responding to issues of migration in Zambia Competences: By the end of the five days’ training workshop, it was hoped that participants would have: Improved skills in…
November Global Community Hour: Migration
Click here to access the prayer from the November Global Community Hour (available in English, Spanish, and Portuguese) We are pleased to invite you to JCoR’s Global Community Hour on Friday, 10 November 2023, from 7:00-8:00am (Guatemala City, Mexico City) / 8:00-9:00am (New York, Bogotá, Havana, Lima) / 10:00-11:00am (Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires) / 3:00-4:00pm (Central Africa time) / 6:30-7:30pm (India Standard time). This meeting is part of a series of monthly online gatherings for Religious from around the globe to come together in prayer for our world and to shine a light on the most pressing justice issues emerging in your respective nations and regions. In the lead up to the Global Refugee Forum and the Global Forum on Migration and Development, we want to open up a space for discussion about people on the move: migrants, refugees, and internally displaced persons. Therefore, we are especially inviting…
JCoR Virtual Meeting for All Sub-Regions of Latin America and the Caribbean
To transition from a year full of workshops throughout many sub-regions of Latin America (Andean-Amazonian, Caribbean, Southern Cone, and Mesoamerica), JCoR convened a virtual meeting for the whole continent at the beginning of December 2022. This gathering featured an exchange of updates on work undertaken in each sub-region towards campaigns themes that were selected during the year’s previously-held workshops. JCoR’s leaders in Latin America also shared a series of short videos highlighting key issues of justice currently concerning the region (deforestation, extreme poverty, inflation, migration). These four sub-regions will continue to communicate and organise around their selected areas of concern in 2023. Como transición de un año lleno de talleres a lo largo de muchas subregiones de América Latina (Andino-Amazónica, Caribe, Cono Sur y Mesoamérica), el JCoR convocó una reunión virtual para todo el continente a principios de diciembre de 2022. En esta reunión se intercambiaron actualizaciones sobre el trabajo realizado en…
Strengthening Connections to End Human Trafficking: An Interactive Dialogue
Strengthening Connections to End Human Trafficking: an Interactive Dialogue with Talitha Kum, US Catholic Sisters Against Human Trafficking, and UN NGOs Conversation Starters: Gabriella Bottani, SMC, International Coordinator Talitha Kum Winifred Doherty, RGS, NGO Representative to the UN for the Congregation of Our Lady of Charity of the Good Shepherd Michelle Loisel, DC, Coordinator of Provincial Response to Migrants and Issues of Modern Human Slavery, Company of the Daughters of Charity, St. Louise Province Robert Miresel, SVD, NGO Representative to the UN, VIVAT International Date: Tuesday, 30 July, 11:00am-1:00pm Location: UN Church Center, 2nd Floor, 777 United Nations Plaza Click here to see the event flyer.
Justice at the heart of global transformation
